2016/10: Florin is member of the DASFAA 2017 PC. Consider submitting your work to this conference.

2016/09: Florin and Ph.D. student Martin Torres introduce the basics of data acquisition and visualization with Arduino and ThingSpeak channels to K3-8 teachers participating in the Team-E Science project.

2016/08: Several students join our research group: Yujing Ma is a PhD student coming from East China Normal University in Shanghai; Ye Zhu is an MS student with a PhD degree in Biotechnology from UC Merced; Sahil Hingorani is a BS student.

2016/08: Florin is member of the ICDE 2017 PC. Consider submitting your work to this conference.

2016/08: In Fall 2016, Florin teaches CSE 111 Database Systems with a record enrollment of 90 students. He also organizes the EECS Seminar.

2016/08: Florin attends Data Day at NERSC in Berkeley and presents a poster on GLADE.

2016/08: Yu Cheng successfully defended his PhD dissertation In-situ Data Processing Over Raw Files. Congratulations and good luck with your new job at Turn! Yu is the first PhD graduate from my research group.

2016/08: Abdur Rafay successfully defended his MS thesis Multi-Query Optimization in GLADE. Congratulations and good luck with your new job at FICO where you have the chance to directly apply what you worked on in your thesis!

Research interests.
Florin's research interests lie in the area of databases and large scale data management in general, with a particular focus on designing and building infrastructure for Big Data analytics. Specific topics include approximate query processing, parallel online aggregation, and scalable machine learning. Scientific data processing as another facet of Big Data receives considerable attention in Florin's research through topics such as multi-dimensional array data management and in-situ data processing. Florin is interested both in theoretical aspects as well as system design issues.